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Command Line Tool to extract data from files

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# PyExtractor

Extractor is a command line program to extract data from pdf, images, using OCR,GROK patterns, YAML and multiprocessing.
The goal of this application is collect data, extract and organize the results in csv file.

## Getting Start

These instructions will get you a copy of the project and running on your local machine.

### Installing

A step by step instruction to installing your environment at **Ubuntu/Debian**

#### Dependencies

```bash
apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev antiword unrtf poppler-utils pstotext tesseract-ocr flac ffmpeg lame libmad0 libsox-fmt-mp3 sox libjpeg-dev swig

pip install textract
```

#### Clone repository
```bash
git clone https://github.com/petryx/pyextractor.git


```

## Usage

The application has the follow workflow:
- Download file
- Extract text from file
- Extract patterns
- Write a csv file

### Configuration file **config.yml**

This file is very important to application work is a file where reside all configurations, like: header of csv, order of columns, patterns to extract from file, ...
The [syntax](http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation#YAMLsyntax) of this file use the rules o [YAML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML).

Main Parameters:

**DEBUG**: Enable/Disable Debug output at stdout

**NUM_WORKERS**: Number of cores to processing

**patterns**: [Grok Patterns](https://github.com/garyelephant/pygrok/tree/master/pygrok/patterns).

**sequence**: The sequence is used to reference columns of csv related to patterns, and another configurations.

**See folder sample for example of use**.

## Built With

- Python 3.5
- [PyGrok](https://github.com/garyelephant/pygrok)
- [Textract](https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract)

## Author

* **Marlon Petry** - *Initial work* - [Extractor](https://github.com/petryx/Extractor)
* **Nhan Petry** - *Inspiration and first user* [Extractor](https://github.com/petryx/Extractor)

## Acknowledgments

Please give us your feedback of use, it is very important to keep developing this tool.


## License


Copyright 2017 Marlon Petry

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
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